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Get the complete set of Enkaustikos Hot Cakes encaustic wax paints in 1.5oz tins for the incredible discount of 40% off MSRP. Purchased individually, all of the items in the set would retail for over $1100. List price for the set is $999.99, but your price is just $599.99 through the end of 2010.

This special offer must be purchased in-store as a special order.

The Old Bank District is celebrating its 10th anniversary on Saturday, August 21 with OBD X, and we’re going to be open late and offering a great deal: 40% off on all Stabilo products. Pens, markers, highlighters, and pencil sets. This is a one-day, in-store-only deal.

We love the brushes from Princeton Art & Brush Co., and we’re thrilled to offer this incredible 50% off deal on all of their brushes and sets for the month of June.

Princeton Art & Brush Co. has been making brushes for fine artists since 1992, for every medium and every price range. Consistent quality and extraordinary value are incorporated into every brush they make, because they recognize that brushes are the most important tools for any painter.

We got our hands on an extra load of Coffee Table Sketch Books, and Wonton wants to move these 12½ × 10¾” books that have 348 sheets and weigh 8 lbs. The list price on these monsters is $43.99, we usually have them for 50% off, but for the rest of the month they will be 65% off, which takes the price all the way down to the crazy low price of $15.36.

We’ll admit that we are a little old-fashioned and aren’t even planning on putting up our holiday decorations until after Thanksgiving. But we will embrace the new-fangled notion of day-after-Thanksgiving deals. (We won’t call it Black Friday, since we’re already in the black for the year.)

You might recognize these Pen & Ink Sketch Books from Art Alternatives as being similar to a product from another company that doesn’t actually involve the skin of any moles. The 3.5×5.5″ sketch books come with lines, grids, or just plain paper (as well as in a landscape format with plain paper). The MSRP for these is $9.99, and you may have seen some varieties of these on our clearance table recently for $4.99. We were able to get our hands on more, and we’re blowing them out for the incredible price of $2.99 each.

And once you have a sketch book, you need something to draw or sketch with, right? We have another great deal on 12 and 24 piece drawing and sketching sets.

The 12-piece Sketching Tin Set includes six graytone pastel sticks, three graphite pencils and three pastel drawing pencils. The 24-piece set includes four pastel drawing pencils, six graytone pastel sticks, three charcoal pencils, three woodless charcoal pencils, four graphite sketching pencils, a kneaded eraser, a latex-free eraser and two pencil sharpeners.

The 12-piece Drawing Tin Set includes five colored pencils, six colored pastel sticks, and a graphite sketching pencil. The 24-piece set includes ten colored pencils, two metallic colored pencils, eight colored pastel sticks, two graphite pencils, a kneaded eraser, and a pencil sharpener.

12-piece sets have an MSRP of $14.99, but are now on sale for just $4.99. The 24-piece sets have an MSRP of $29.99, and are on sale for just $9.99.

These deals will only be available while supplies last.

We’re getting closer to our anniversary and the accompanying truckload canvas sale. Many of you took advantage of the early-bird specials last week, and now we’re opening up the full range of sizes for pre-ordering by the case. The cases range from 65% to 85% off.

Check out the full list of case sizes and prices available for pre-order. We’ll be taking orders until November 7, and the cases will be available for pick-up starting on November 14.

The canvases are made by Art Alternatives. Natural, unbleached medium-weight (8oz) cotton duck is stretched around specially designed, kiln-dried stretcher bars, and held in place with a flexible spline allowing these canvases to be painted on all four edges as well as the canvas surface. The surface is triple-primed with acid-free acrylic titanium gesso and staple-free on the sides. Studio Stretched Canvas features a ⅞” edge, and Gallery Stretched Canvas features a thick 1½” edge. Both are suitable for oil and acrylic painting.

Raw Materials had its grand opening in November 2008. For our one-year anniversary, we are bringing in truckloads of pre-stretched canvas. And by pre-ordering cases of canvas now for pick-up when our truckload sale starts on November 14, you’re getting the best possible price we can offer – up to 85% off for a limited time.

Check out the early-bird order form which shows you what is available for order as part of this special. We’ll have the full list of pre-order deals available next week, and information on the in-store sales prices as we get closed to November 14.

The canvases are made by Art Alternatives. Natural, unbleached medium-weight cotton duck is stretched around specially designed, kiln-dried stretcher bars, and held in place with a flexible spline allowing these canvases to be painted on all four edges as well as the canvas surface. The surface is triple-primed with acid-free acrylic titanium gesso and staple-free on the sides. Studio Stretched Canvas features a ⅞” edge, and Gallery Stretched Canvas features a thick 1½” edge. Both are suitable for oil and acrylic painting.

Deep Canvas that feature a 3″ edge, Linen Artist Canvas that is triple-primed with clear gesso and feature a 1½” edge, and Premium Studio & Gallery Stretched Canvas are also available at our every-day discounts of 50% for individual pieces, and an additional 20% off for cases (60% in total). Please ask us for details.

This Saturday, come down and check out the Rembrandt Soft Pastels and Mi-Teintes drawing papers. We’ll have a table set up with pastels and papers for you to play with. And we’ll be offering the pastels at 25% off (including a small selection of sets) and the papers at 40% off. (The pastels are regularly 10% off, and the papers are regularly 20% off.)

For a limited time, every time you purchase six tubes of Golden Acrylics heavy body acrylic paint, you’ll get a free 5oz tube of Titanium White.

With our every-day discount of 20% on Golden products, this is a perfect way to either start building your palette or expand it using some of Golden’s innovative colors.

Cold Wax Medium from Gamblin is a simple mixture of pure beeswax, Gamsol Odorless Mineral Spirits, and a small amount of alkyd resin. This versatile medium can be added directly to oil colors as a painting medium, used to modify the surface quality of Gamblin Galkyd painting mediums, as well as used alone as a matte varnish.

While supplies last, get a free sample of Cold Wax Medium with the purchase of any other Gamblin products. We’ll also throw in a free 37ml tube of Torrit Grey paint while our supplies of that last. Ask about our other Gamblin samples, too.

Stay tuned for details on a special Gamblin oil painting class we’ll be hosting in October. We’ll have the full details in our next newsletter.